A Night of Bridal Terror: She Becomes the Substitute Bride of a Cold-Faced General
Su Yao, a renowned surgeon and top graduate, opens her eyes to find herself in a bridal sedan chair, dressed in a wedding gown. She's transmigrated into the body of a concubine-born woman with the same name, who is being forced to marry into the General's household. When her veil is lifted, she meets the blade-like gaze of Xuan Yuan Yuhan, the general who brings death to his wives. His third wife just died suddenly three days ago. Now Xuan Yuan Yuhan's blade is at her throat. Is she to be his fourth sacrifice?
While others fight over the household and poison one another, she uses a scalpel to turn the tables.
The General's residence is full of deadly traps:
→ The Old Madam vomits blood after being poisoned? Peritoneal dialysis flushes out the neurotoxin.
→ A soldier is dying of tetanus? She cultures penicillin from a moldy orange.
→ Men scream over severed limbs on the battlefield? Catgut sutures and an alcohol-flame cautery knife work miracles to stop the bleeding.
Xuan Yuan Yuhan grabs her hand as she dissects a locust. "Are you dissecting a person or a bug, Madam?" She smiles and cuts open the insect's abdomen. "Watch closely, General. This is called tracing the pathology to its source!"
From the operating table to the battlefield, her twin blades shape the fate of the land.
He witnesses it all:
✧ Cowpox vaccination wipes smallpox from the northern frontier (a double-edged needle carved from a scalpel blade).
✧ Siphon-based flood diversion tames the raging Yellow River (adapted from the principles of medical water pressure).
✧ Activated-carbon filter dams purify poisoned water (an upgrade to battlefield adsorption treatments).
When she helps a refugee give birth with her pregnant belly in the way, he kneels and supports the woman's waist. "You wield the blade, Madam. I'll help you hold up the world."
Where the smoke of war clears, scalpels and waves of rice dance together.
Ten years later:
• The military medical corps passes down the Handbook of Triage and Emergency Care for Battle Wounds.
• The maternity and children's hospital introduces forceps-assisted births, reducing fatal bleeding.
• Children run through the cotton fields of the northern frontier, vaccinated against disease.
On the Lantern Festival night, he kisses the hand that holds her scalpel. "Thank goodness I have you, Madam. You gave me a peaceful world after the flames of war had died away."
